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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16875, 28 October 1922, Page 16

There are 113 newspapers and fourteen magazines in the United States owned and directed by negroes. Notwithstanding its fifty-storeyed sky scrapers the “American” declares that “ the great mistake in this country is limiting the height of buildings. Height is the test of the new American architectural genius. To cripple that is a mistake. Some day our cities will be made of buildings a mile high, with landings for flying machines on top. The street car system will be the elevators running up and down, horizontal street cars will run on balconies outside the buildings.”